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Gnostic societies and their leaders will recognize dangers to their existence when they develop, but such dangers will not be met by appropriate actions in the world of reality. They will rather be met by magic operations in the dream world, such as disapproval, moral condemnation, declarations of intentions, resolutions, appeals to the opinion of mankind, branding of enemies as aggressors, outlawing of war, propaganda for world peace and world government, etc. The intellectual and moral corruption which expresses itself in the aggregate of such magic operations may pervade a society with the weird, ghostly atmosphere of a lunatic asylum, as we experience it in our time in the Western crisis.

Alas, 'magic operations in the dream world' is how all manner of business is conducted today. I deal with such paranormal strategies at work by pretending to be a shaman in a collar and tie who consults the entrails of unpaid interns for bad omens.

The cube farm fosters the zombie rather than the wraith, but yes. I must attend a conference call in the dream-world to discuss how the magical operations of "social media" are going to boost our sales ..... hocus pocus on Main Street.

I find his use of the word "gnostic" in a way totally divorced from it's historical usage troubling. But by the way I stumbled upon a link that might be of interest "Eric Voegelin at 114 " http://speculumcriticum.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/eric-voegelin-at-114.html

Totally divorced? Replace 'Gnostic' and 'Gnosticism' with 'liberal' and 'liberalism' in the following passage:

"Whereas Judaism and Christianity, and almost all pagan systems, hold that the soul attains its proper end by obedience of mind and will to the Supreme Power, i.e. by faith and works, it is markedly peculiar to Gnosticism that it places the salvation of the soul merely in the possession of a quasi-intuitive knowledge of the mysteries of the universe and of magic formulae indicative of that knowledge. Gnostics were "people who knew", and their knowledge at once constituted them a superior class of beings, whose present and future status was essentially different from that of those who, for whatever reason, did not know."

"America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them; and every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American." - George W. Bush

"America is not only for the whites , but it is for all. Who is the America? The American is you, me and that. When we go to America we will become Americans and there is no a race or nationalism called America and the Americans are those Africans, Indians, Chinese, and Europeans and whoever goes to America will become American...American is for all of us and the whole world had made and created America. All the people all over the world had made America and it shall accordingly be for all of us. I will never feel ashamed when I claim for my right in America and it will not be strange when I raise my v…